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more particularly venerated the moon, was, because 

 they considered it, in its crescent form, as bearing 

 some resemblance to the boat, or ark, in which Noah 

 was preserved in the Flood, and in their language, 

 accordingly, they used the same terms for the moon 

 and the ark. 



The Sacred Tbis. 



Looking upon the Ibis, therefore, as a type or 

 emblem of the moon, and again associating its ap- 



